Here is a short video from two of our spots today.
It snowed 50cm cold pow yesterday so today was all time.

It’s turning out to be a really good season here in Engelberg, the snow keeps on falling with sunny breaks in between.
When it cleared up the other day we had got plenty of new snow. I went up shooting with the local rippers Lars Windlin and Piers Solomon and got some really good stuff. Lars decided to hit a huge cliff in Steinberg and it all went very well.
Day three of sunshine we wanted to do an early morning session. The face I have been shooting a few times now looked ready and we really wanted to get it right when the first morning light hits it. I got Lars, Piers and local snowboarder Bimba to join so we sat the alarm on 04.20 AM and started skinning from town at 05.15. We got up in time to get the sunrise and I’m really happy we did it.
Right now it’s snowing hard again so it’s going to be epic tomorrow.
Here are a few photos and a video from the past days.

Lars on a warm up cliff overlooking Titlis

This is a pre and post shot of Lars big cliff

Piers, Lars and Bimba getting ready to drop in

Snowing big flakes in town right now

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The reset button has been pushed and it’s pow again in Engelberg.
I had a fun day with the Windlin brothers and Piers and tomorrow looks like totally blue bird so then it’s back to work for real.

Why do you look so scared Lars???

Aha, well it's a soft landing so no worries.

I took a day off from shooting after a pretty busy period. It was nice to ski without the heavy camera pack so I just had my pocket camera to get a few snap shots.
It has not snowed for a while up high in Engelberg but the inversion with the valley fog has made the lower part of the mountain soft and new snow has fallen almost every day. I got pretty surprised on how good the snow was and I got plenty of good runs with Eric who’s the owner of Ski Lodge Engelberg and the president of Paradiesli Beach Boys and his two crew members .
There is new snow in the forecast so let’s hope for a refresh.

Larsa getting some air

Sun dog

The PBB President

Titlis

The crew checking out the next move

Stand gondola looking over to Jochpass

The President in his backyard

Larsa

Eric Spongberg

It has been a pretty busy but productive week here in Engelberg with early wake up calls every day. I have been shooting with the DPS Skis crew for next years catalog and ad campaigns. Engelberg has always been a part of DPS history so they come here every year after the ISPO trade show to go ski and get some good content. This week has been extremely cold so it has been a bit hard on all of us and I can say my fingers has suffered a lot! The upside is that the snow stays cold and light so I should not complain and to keep warm we have done a lot of touring.
Stephan Drake was in the crew as usual but this year DPS had two new faces as well, Olof Larsson and Piers Solomon. Everyone showed solid riding and I’m happy with the outcome of this shoot.
I can’t show too many action shots but here are a few images form our week and also a video.

Cold and early

Stephan checking his line

Piers Solomon

Stephan and Matteo on their way down

Matteo keeping an eye on us

Good morning Engelberg

Another week has passed and it’s still snowing. Sometimes very hard snowfall, sometimes just light snow and fog. We have been out touring almost every day so the legs are getting tired by now but it’s all good when your able to ride pow.
Eliel showed us a very nice pillow zone that we have been up to a few times now with some good results.
Here is a video from the past week and a teaser of the zone we have been to.

Marshmallow land

After a few sunny days with ok snow the low pressure rolled in. We had got a few good shots so far but the snow made it a bit hard to get great stuff even if the riding has been good and a lot of fun.
It did not look like this storm would bring that much snow but we got a very positive surprise when we got to the mountain today. Eliel Hindert joined the crew today so now there are three riders, Eliel, Piers and Jesse.
We are all pretty tired from riding and tomorrow is a new early start so here are a few shots form today plus a video from before and during the storm.
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Jesse getting face shot

Piers with a 360, I had trouble seeing him with all the snow falling

Jesse finding some fun pillows

Eliel 180 to pow

Piers, almost snorkel deep

Me and Piers got in to Nelson 2 days ago and hooked up with Ben from Sweetgrass and Jesse Hoffman.
We got a nice and mellow start here in Whitewater yesterday. It was cold and blue sky with good snow. We took it pretty easy and did not shoot that much because Piers is sick and Ben has not got all his touring gear yet. The first part of the day Tobias Liljeroth from the Swedish ski mag Åka Skidor showed us around and took us to some good spots.
It’s a bit cloudy today so we are having a slow start but will head up soon to see if it clears a bit.
Here are a few shots form yesterday.

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Piers alone in the woods

Jesse and Piers

Jesse

Piers

Piers with the last turn of the day

Whitewater

Two new covers dropped in and this time it’s French SKI Magazine and German SNOW.
The SKI cover is of Seb Garhammer skiing in Pemberton, BC at Backcountry Snowcats during our shoot for the Peak Performance catalog.
The other one is of Jon Larsson in Sestriere. It’s actually the same day as his cover last month on SKI Magazine, just about 10 minutes a part.
I’m in Spokane, WA now waiting for our ride to Nelson, BC. I have a massive jetlag from the 20h flight and have been up since 4am. I’ll post an update about the plans in Canada soon.
Here are the covers.

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Seb Garhammer in Pemberton

Jon Larsson in Sestriere

I had the pleasure to join Ben Sturgulewski, Johan Jonsson, Forrest Shearer and Stephan Drake last April on a camping mission in Hanies,AK.
Here is a short video from that trip that Ben and the Sweetgrass crew put together. Ben really know how to capture the right feeling and his eye for a beautiful shot is spot on.
I’m happy to join Ben on Monday again in Nelson, BC for the upcoming Sweetgrass project.

It has been snowing for a few days here in Engleberg but it has also been very strong winds. Everything was closed on Thursday but it did open up yesterday so we went up to Brunni for a few runs. We found some good snow but also ran in to very strong wind at some places.
It calmed down a bit yesterday evening and the snow should keep dumping so I think it could be even better up there in the next few days.
Here is a mellow video from yesterday.

Brunni from oskar enander on Vimeo.

The Swedish design and architecture magazine HOOM just ran a portfolio of mine.
Happy new year.

HOOM

Stephan Drake in Haines.

Patrick Vuagnat in Disentis and Tobias Nordahl in Engelberg

Bimba Bernasconi in Haines

Tobias Nordahl in Engelberg and Patrick Vuagnat in Engelberg

Seb Garhammer in Haines

Jon Larsson in Sestriere

After a pretty long storm cycle here in Engelberg it cleared on the 25th and we got a nice high pressure. The snow has been really good and it’s nice to see that it’s filling in well and most stuff good to ride. I have been shooting a bit with Mattias Hargin, Johan Jonsson, Piers Solomon and Lars Windlin and we got some good stuff. I can’t show anything great but here are a few leftovers.
Btw, it’s snowing again and it looks like it could be another good storm.

Lars Windlin

Piers and Mattias checking out their lines

Piers crusing

Piers throwing a mini back flip

Johan is back in Engelberg

Engelberg

Winter has finally arrived for real in Engleberg. We have had several days with heavy snowfall and it still keeps on coming down. I have been out riding a lot to get my legs going.
Here are a few shots and a video.

Dumping

Yves Hüsler

Edward Berg getting face shot

Johan with a heavy mustache

Piers Solomon

Piers

It's deep in town too. Ski Lodge Engelberg is inviting for Apre ski

Two new covers just hit the news stand and both of them are of Jon Larsson.
I’m very happy for both of them but the Freeskiers Photo Annual cover is a big thing to get so I’m super stoked about that! That shot was taken on a catalog shoot for Peak Performance in Pemberton, BC.
The other cover is of French SKI Magazine. It was taken in Sestriere, Italy a few years ago, right before we got caught by the police for skiing off pist……

Jon in Pemberton

Some words about the shot

Jon getting face shot before the police came